John Cale

The Twelve Scariest Bands

Seeing that Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson hit the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie this evening, we thought it would be a good time to compile a list of the scariest acts in music. Scary can be a relative term. One person's demented can be another's delightful, but each of these 12 scary acts has ... More >>

Alan Light's new book explains how Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" went from obscurity to ubiquity

Sofar Sounds' Secret Shows come to DFW

Sofar Sounds' Secret Shows Are Buzzing In DFW

As torrential thunderstorms spanned North Texas one day last August, a petite woman stood clutching a clipboard on the large wrap-around porch of a colonial-style home in Munger Place. The two-story house was the seventh setting for one of Sofar Sounds' perpetually secret locations in DFW. Musicians ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Led Zeppelin's Gonna Groove at Memorial in 1970

Via.Click to embiggen if you want to remember laughter. Or Minsky's Music.​For those playing along at home, this long-weekend's offering fills in an estimable blank. Because so far we've time-traveled back to that field in Lewisville in '69, when Led Zeppelin joined Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Johnny ... More >>

Staff Trax: Matt & Kim, Dutch, Jimmy Eat World, Uncle Tupelo, The Verve, John Cale,

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ou ... More >>

Another Matter Entirely

The members of The Theater Fire are as different as Lightness and Darkness

North of the Dial

Getting Crunk With Liars Frontman Angus Andrew

He also couldn't resist talking about Yoko Romo

Q&A: Super Furry Animals

Low

Thursday, October 4, at the Palladium

Oops!

Sometimes we screw up. So sue us.

Obituary for a Storefront

Shadow Boxer

Alejandro Escovedo emerges from darkness with a new album

Space Is Deep

Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

Raising Arizona

Alejandro Escovedo

The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)

John Cale

Tuesday, November 1, at Granada Theater

Odds & Ends

Sally Timms

In the World of Him (Touch and Go)

Various artists

Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo (Or Music)

Look No Further

In 2003, the best was hard to find but easy to hear

Don't Look Back

Destroyer's Dan Bejar hit the road for This Night and found a great album at the end

Super Furry Animals

May 3

From the Trenches

One member of the Denton music community preaches all about it

Glenn Tilbrook

November 22

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Dreamland

Jon Dee Graham almost gave up on music; good thing it didn't give up on him

Art-pop explosion!

Go Metric USA makes pop music for smart people

Something about Jonathan

Jonathan Richman helped invent punk and geek rock. Now, he comes pogo-sticking back into your life with There's Something About Mary

The Lizard king

David Yow's got balls--he just doesn't want to show them to you anymore

Rock bottom

Tucked away in the cellar of a Denton pizza shack is a club that offers punk rock bands a place to re-discover why they make music in the first place

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Roadshows

Winner's circle

All the bands that fit,and one that quit

Roadshows

Out There

Events for the week

Out There

Lou says

The soul of Velvet Underground stares into the Twilight

Out Here

The art of implication

Vince Bell's been dead once, and he's got the record to prove it

Roadshows

Roadshows

Heart-shaped box

Velvet Underground set charts the still-unknowable

Roadshows

No mere replacement

Chris Mars looks back at the 'Mats even as he runs forward

Channel surfing

The 1994 Dallas Video Festival mixes equal parts ineptitude and brilliance